Mary Gilliland’s award-winning collections are The Devil’s Fools and The Ruined Walled Castle Garden. with poems anthologized most recently in Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems on Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. She is a recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, a Cornell University Council on the Arts Faculty Grant, and the 2023 International Literary Seminars Kenya/Fence 1st Prize in Poetry. Forthcoming collections include In the pool of the sea’s shoulder (Dancing Girl Press, 2023) and Ember Days (Codhill Press, 2024)